Improvement in anchor-trippers



E. G. GAILLAC.

Anchor-Tripper.

N0. |67,093. Patented Aug. 24,1875.

'WSE. I a E WZZZ pg I ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIOE.

EUGENE G. GAILLAO, OF JQNESPORT, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ANCHOR-TRIPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,093, dated August24, 1875 application filed June 5, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE G. GAILLAG, of J onesport, in the county ofWashington and State of Maine, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Devices for Letting Go Anchors; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the lettersand figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a sectional view of mydevice, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Figs. 3 are detail views.

This invention has relation to improvements in devices for trippinganchors when they are a-cock-bill-that is to say, when they aresuspended perpendicularly from the cathead or haWse-hole, ready to letgo; and the nature of the invention consists in a spurred rockingbararranged in bearings above and parallel to awinding-drum, which bar isadapted to be locked, with its spurs upward, against rotation, incombination with a, capstan or Windlass, whereon the cable is wound, anda grappling-hook or claw for holding the chaincable with the anchora-cock-bill, whereby a very effectual and ready means for letting goanchor is obtained, as will be hereinafter more fully explained andclaimed.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a section of the bow of a vessel;B, a windingdrum of the usual well-known form and construction, and O isa chain-cable wound around the Windlass and sustaining an anchor, D

a-cock-bill. 7

E represents a strong metallic claw, having a loop, e, upon its hookedend,

and an eye, a, upon the end of its shank b. Claw E is connected by meansof a strong chain, c, with the pawl-post d, the said chain being rigidlysecured to loop 6; and a second chain, 0, having a ring upon its freeend, is in like manner rigidly secured to eye a, for a purposehereinafter explained. F designates a rocking bar, having a number ofstrong curved spurs, f, projecting therefrom at a suitable distanceapart, which bar is mounted in suitable bearings above the winding-drum.

Bar F is of angular form, as shown in Fig. 3, the short arm 9 thereofbeing at right angles to its longer arm g, and terminating in acylindrical projection, i. This bar is locked against rotation by meansof a vibrating latch, H, which is of the general form of a hinge, and isrigidly secured to the Windlass-frame directly above arm g of therocking or tripping bar. This latch has in one end an aperture, j,adapted to receive within it projection c of the said tripping-bar,which latter will then be held against rotation.

Having described my improved tripping device, I shall now proceed todescribe its operation. The anchor being, as above described,a-cock-bill, the weight of the same will be sustained by the Windlass. Itransfer it to the rocking bar by hooking claw E into the chaincable,and passing the ring on the end of chain 0 over a short spur, 1, nearthe angle of arms 9 g of the tripping-bar. The chain on the Windlass maynow be slackened up without danger of letting the anchor go out by therun, and the slack arranged on spurs f of the rocking bar in loose coilsor festoons. This having been done, the anchor may be let go in thefollowing manner, to wit: The vibratin g arm of latch H is thrown up,thus releasing tripping-bar and allowing it to rotate in its bearings,causing ring 1' on the end of chain c to be drawn off of the spur. Thechain will now run out rapidly through the hawse-hole, claw E havingbeen drawn out from its attachinent thereto by means of chain c, whichis rigidly secured to the pawl-post d and to the loop 6 on the claw.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an anchor-tripping device, the spurred rotating tripping-bar F, witha means for preventing its rotation, in combination with the claw E andchains 0 a, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE G. GAILLAO.

Witnesses:

N. (J. DAVIS, LYsANDER 0. SMITH.

